At the same time as the installation of lasers at the Institute of Physics, various ancillary facilities are also under construction, but the development of inertial confined nuclear fusion is not so simple.

Wei Feng, who is at the Dayi Scientific Research Base, has conducted three plasma experiments, namely 1-minute plasma control, 5-minute plasma control, and 10-minute plasma control.

From the perspective of the reaction, the experiment was very successful, and the two of them built a plasma turbulence model together, and the plasma, a problem child with ADHD, was firmly placed in the reaction chamber.

However, controlling the plasma is only the first step in the long march, and the next neutron irradiation, continuous operation, power generation problems, etc., have to be handled by the two of them.

Through online videos, the two discussed various problems encountered in inertial restraint.

Meanwhile.

SMIC's Jiangcheng plant.

Gao Zhiyuan personally rushed over from Shanmei for the trial operation of the chip production line this time.

Due to the major domestic semiconductor equipment manufacturers, the technology has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent times, and has caught up with the world-class or even the top level.

With the support of upstream semiconductor equipment suppliers, SMIC is like a god in developing 12nm processes.

A purely localized chip production line, with the efforts of a group of engineers and technicians, has been able to enter the trial operation stage.

"Mr. Gao, shall we start?" Zhao Jun turned his head and asked.

Gao Zhiyuan nodded.

"Weiguang, let's start the trial run."

"Okay."

Zhao Jun gave an order, and everyone took action.

They follow the chip manufacturing process, take out a batch of eight-inch silicon wafers from the warehouse and send them to the production line.

The process is cleaning, drying, coating, grinding, washing, drying, lithography......

There are some processes that need to be repeated, such as cleaning and drying, and after each silicon wafer grinding, photolithography, etching, it needs to be cleaned and dried to ensure that there is no residue on the silicon wafer.

Watching the wafers being repeatedly operated on the production line made everyone nervous.

Zhao Jun looked at the efforts of most of the year, and was a little restless at this time, and subconsciously touched his pocket, ready to take out the cigarette he was carrying, but he felt empty.

At this time, he realized that smoking is not allowed in the dust-free workshop.

And Li Weiguang, Jiang Shangzhou and others are no better, either staring at the production line or fidgeting.

"Everyone, don't be nervous." Gao Zhiyuan was heart-wrenched and comforted everyone.

"Don't be nervous!" Zhao Jun smiled bitterly.

Since the lithography process is faster than that of ordinary lithography machines, the whole process takes about five hours.

The first silicon wafer is finally freshly baked, densely covered with a grid chip, and now the chip has entered the final link, that is, segmentation.

SMIC's segmentation method is wire cutting.

The thin metal wire, under the control of the CNC machine tool, accurately divides the chips one by one.

Of course, the chip at this time is still a semi-finished product, which needs to be packaged and packaged before it can be listed or delivered to customers.

However, SMIC is in trial operation, and this chip is just an ordinary 32G memory chip, even if there is no package, it can be tested, which is a small-scale self-test within chip manufacturing enterprises.

More than 10,000 pieces of 32G memory chips were quickly cut out and carefully taken to the testing room by engineers and technicians.

Zhao Jun, Gao Zhiyuan and others hurriedly followed.

The testing room was immersed in intense testing, divided into ten teams to test the memory chips together.

Its practical 12nm process to produce 32G memory chips, which is overkill, but who called SMIC himself has no bottom in his heart, afraid that the step will be too big and the egg will be pulled, so he can only engage in a 32G memory chip for trial operation.

On the computer on the side, there are chips that have been successfully detected and chip data that have failed.

Although SMIC has been striving for excellence, it is a pity that the first time to play the 12nm process, the chip qualification rate is naturally miserable, 500 chips have been tested, and the current pass rate is only about 62%.

And the pass rate, does not mean that the qualified chips are the same, among these qualified chips, will also be divided into excellent products, good products, qualified products, the current excellent products only account for about 43%, the remaining 19% are qualified products, or defective products.

"It's fine! OK! Li Weiguang did not feel depressed when he saw this data, but felt relieved.

They experimented with chip manufacturing before, and there was even a situation where the pass rate was even lower than this time, which is a situation that every chip manufacturing company has to face.

In the research and development of the new process, the pass rate is more than 60% at the beginning, which is already a very good process.

Zhao Jun and Jiang Shangzhou and others also breathed a sigh of relief, they were busy for more than half a year, and spent tens of billions of funds, if the pass rate was miserable, it is estimated that they would be depressed to death.

"Mr. Zhao, when do you estimate that the productivity will be formed?" Gao Zhiyuan is most concerned about this issue, after all, after the privatization of SMIC, most of these R&D funds are now coming out of Shenguang Instruments.

"Hmm......" Zhao Jun thought for a few minutes: "We strive to complete the commissioning work before the Spring Festival and increase the pass rate to more than 95%." ”

Gao Zhiyuan nodded: "Okay, then I'll leave everything to Mr. Zhao and you." ”

The next debugging work went very smoothly, thanks to the application of simulation space technology, and the equipment in the production line are all domestic equipment, which can be detected together with the network, and small problems and small problems are very easy to find, and then adjust them in time.

The reason why Zhao Jun said before the Spring Festival is actually to extend the time, according to their current adjustment speed, it is estimated that around mid-January, the commissioning work can be completed and put into formal production.

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Dayuan Province.

TSMC headquarters in Taoyuan City.

After Zhang Zhongmou finished reading the report, his face became solemn, and several vice presidents on the side were also confused.

"SMIC's R&D speed is so fast?" Vice President Cai Gongnan had a ghostly expression.

"Yes! Didn't you say that Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, they embargoed equipment?"

Xiong Guang, the vice president in charge of mainland work, shook his head with a wry smile: "Semiconductor equipment manufacturers in the mainland can already provide world-class semiconductor equipment. ”

“…… Old Bear, are you kidding?"

Xiong Guang spread his hands and replied, "What did I lie to you for?"

Obviously, the threat of SMIC's completion of the 12nm process is not as great as the threat of mainland semiconductor equipment.

The collective improvement of semiconductor equipment in the mainland is a terrible problem, which means that the restrictions of Batumi and the Wa Association in this regard have become a piece of waste paper, and even have the opposite effect.

Zhang Zhongmou can even see countless Chinese domestic chips rushing into the world in the future, killing the entire world's chip market to the ground, and he shuddered when he thought of this.

He already feels a deadly crisis coming towards TSMC.

And he feels powerless, if SMIC realizes the 12nm process, this is not worth TSMC's fear, the problem is the localization of semiconductor equipment, which will continue to create countless SMIC.

As a result, TSMC will face fierce competition.

A storm is coming, perhaps the world's chip manufacturing industry, will be completely changed by the end of 2013, the chip manufacturing enterprises in Dayuan Province, the first to feel the wind and rain to suppress.